JP4744368B2 - Storage - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to a storage such as a domestic refrigerator-freezer provided with a handle on a door that opens and closes a front opening of a storage body.

  In a storage with a handle for the door that opens and closes the front opening of the storage body, the handle is provided with a thick cylindrical gripping part, and a contact part to the door surface at both ends of the gripping part. There are some which are formed of a thick single piece by injection molding. (For example, patent document 1).

In Patent Document 1, as a conventional product, a cross-sectional cylinder is formed by engaging two parts, a semicircular base portion by injection molding and a semicircular decorative cover arranged on the surface side of the semicircular base portion. The handle main body is formed by injection molding to form a gripping part, or the cross section has a substantially cylindrical shape. However, the former is an engaging body of two parts and requires a reinforcing material inside, and the squeaking noise between the parts is generated, and the latter has the same problems as the former, and the surface The decorative board is an invention for solving the problem that the design of the decorative board is limited because it is a cover of the recess.
JP 2004-347216 A

  The grip handle of Patent Document 1 has a thick cylindrical column, and attachment parts at both ends of the grip are screwed to the door front plate with screws from the front of the door, and the front is concealed with a cap member. Is. This will solve the above-mentioned problems such as squeaking noise, but since the handle is made of a synthetic resin formed of a thick single piece by injection molding, it is difficult to give a high-class feeling.

  Some warehouses, such as household refrigerators and refrigerators, have left and right doors that can be opened laterally (commonly known as double doors) in a direction away from each other. In this case, a high-grade handle that matches this door is required. In view of this point, the present invention employs a wooden handle instead of a synthetic resin handle in order to provide a high-quality storage. This wooden handle has an overall appearance that does not appear on the synthetic resin due to the wood material and grain, so that it can have a high-class feeling due to the wooden feel when grasped, and it has a structure that ensures strength and does not produce a squeaking sound. The grip portion and the attachment portions provided at both ends thereof are integrally formed of wood.

The storage of the first invention includes a storage body having a front opening, a door that opens and closes the front opening of the storage body, in which a heat insulating material is foam-filled in a space formed between a front plate, a back plate, and a side plate between the two. A grip handle attached along the front edge of the door, and the grip handle is a wooden handle in which the grip portion and the attachment portions provided at both ends thereof are integrally formed of wood, and the end of the door A front base plate that is provided separately from the front plate of the door and is combined with an end portion of the front plate of the door so as to form a part of the front plate of the door; and one side of the door A mounting plate having a side plate constituting the side plate, and the mounting portion includes a nut embedded in a state in which a screw-in opening is opened in the mounting surface on the back side, before foam filling of the heat insulating material. the Na from the back of the front base plate The attachment portion by an attachment screw screwed into the bets is characterized in that it is fixed to the front side of the front base plate.

In the storage of the second invention, a space formed between the storage body of the front opening, the metal front plate and the back plate, and the side plate between them is foam-filled and opens and closes the front opening of the storage body. A door and a grip handle attached along the front edge of the door; the grip handle is a wooden handle in which a grip portion and attachment portions provided at both ends thereof are integrally formed of wood; The edge portion of the door is constituted by a handle mounting plate provided separately from the front plate of the door, and the handle mounting plate is an end of the front plate of the door so as to form a part of the front plate of the door. A synthetic resin front base plate combined with a front portion and a synthetic resin side plate having a front end joined to the front base plate and constituting a side plate on one side of the door. Opens to the mounting surface on the back side Comprises a nut embedded in, characterized in that the attachment portion by a mounting screw is screwed into the nut prior to foam filling from the rear side of said front base plate of the heat insulating material is fixed to the front side of the front base plate And

In the first invention, a wooden handle is adopted instead of the synthetic resin handle in order to provide a high-quality storage. This wooden handle has an overall appearance that is not found in synthetic resin due to the wood material and grain of the wood, and it feels high-quality due to the wooden feel when grasped, and the grip and the attachment parts provided at both ends are integrated. Since it is made of wood, it has a structure with sufficient strength and no squeaking noise. Further, the front end portion of the door to which the grip handle is attached is constituted by a handle attachment plate including a front base plate that forms part of the front plate of the door and a side plate that forms part of the side plate of the door. Therefore, compared with the case where a wooden handle is attached to the front plate of a single door, the shape and color tone of the handle mounting plate, which is the base plate of the wooden handle, is designed to match the shape of the wooden handle and the wood grain color tone. This increases the flexibility of door design. For this reason, the design effect is improved compared to a flat form of the entire front plate of the door, and the design effect is further improved by making the handle mounting plate a color different from that of the metal front plate. Become. In addition, there is a procedure to fix the wooden handle to the handle mounting plate after combining the handle mounting plate with the front plate of the door, but in the case of a large vertical door, considering the ease of work, the handle mounting plate can be Since it is possible to fix the wooden handle to the handle mounting plate before joining with the front plate of the door, the choice of which work procedure is performed increases. Furthermore, there is a procedure to fix the wooden handle to the front base plate after the handle mounting plate is joined to the front plate of the door, but in the case of a large vertical door, the handle mounting plate is considered if the work is easy. It is also possible to fix the wooden handle to the front base plate before joining the door to the front plate of the door, increasing the choice of which work procedure to perform.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, there is provided a storage base of the synthetic resin front base plate combined with an end portion of the metal front plate so that the handle mounting plate forms a part of the metal front plate of the door, and the front base plate. In addition to the effects of the first invention, the front base plate corresponds to the handle and is accented by the fact that the front end is joined to the synthetic resin side plate constituting the side plate on one side of the door. Compared to the flat form of the door front plate, the design effect is improved and the front base plate has a different color tone from the metal front plate. Will be improved. Further, by configuring the side slope with a side plate separate from the front base plate, it becomes easy to unify the color tone with the side plate of the door or the color tone with the side plate of the door.

The storage of the present invention is a storage main body of the front opening, a door that opens and closes the front opening of the storage main body in which a heat insulating material is foam-filled in a space formed between the front plate, the back plate, and the side plate between the two. A grip handle attached along the front edge of the door is provided, and the handle is a wooden handle in which the grip and the attachment portions provided at both ends thereof are integrally formed of wood, and the edge of the door A front base plate that is provided separately from the front plate of the door and is combined with an end portion of the front plate of the door so as to form a part of the front plate of the door; It is composed of a handle mounting plate provided with a side plate constituting the side plate, and the mounting portion includes a nut embedded in a state in which a screw-in opening opens on the mounting surface on the back side, before foam filling of the heat insulating material The nut from the back side of the front base plate. To are those wherein the mounting portion by mounting screws screwed is fixed to the front side of the front base plate, which describes an embodiment of the present invention are described below.

  Next, an embodiment in which the storage of the present invention is a refrigerator-freezer will be described. 1 is a front perspective view of a refrigerator-freezer according to the present invention, FIG. 2 is an exploded perspective view of a door of the refrigerator-freezer according to the present invention, and FIG. 3 is a longitudinal side view of a handle portion of the door of the refrigerator-freezer according to the present invention. 4 is a transverse plan view corresponding to the handle attachment portion of the door of the refrigerator-freezer according to the present invention, FIG. 5 is an enlarged transverse plan view of the handle attachment portion of the door of the refrigerator-freezer according to the present invention, and FIG. It is the expanded vertical side view of the handle | steering-wheel attachment part of the door of a refrigerator-freezer.

  The refrigerator-freezer 1 which is a typical storage as the storage according to the present invention will be described. The refrigerator-freezer 1 has a structure in which a front-opening refrigerator-freezer body (storage body) 2 is partitioned to form a plurality of storage chambers, and the front surfaces of these storage chambers can be opened and closed by doors. The refrigerator-freezer main body 2 has a heat insulating structure in which a foam heat insulating material is filled between an outer box (outer wall plate) and an inner box (inner wall plate). A refrigerator compartment 3, an ice making compartment 4, a freezing temperature compartment 5, a freezer compartment 6, and a vegetable compartment 7 are provided in the refrigerator main body 2 from above. The front opening of the refrigerator compartment 3 is opened and closed by left and right doors 8A and 8B that are supported by hinge devices 9 and 9 on one side of the refrigerator-freezer main body 2 and can be laterally opened (commonly called double doors).

  The ice making chamber 4 has an automatic ice making machine installed therein, and the front opening of the ice making chamber 4 is opened and closed by a pull-out door 10 that pulls out an ice storage container for storing ice made by the automatic ice making machine. The front opening of the freezing temperature chamber 5 is opened and closed by a pull-out door 11 that pulls out the food storage container in the freezing temperature chamber 5 together. The front opening of the freezer compartment 6 is opened and closed by a pull-out door 12 that pulls out the food storage container in the freezer compartment 5 together. The front opening of the vegetable compartment 7 is opened and closed by a pull-out door 13 that pulls out the vegetable storage container in the vegetable compartment 7 together.

  Each of these doors 8A, 8B, pull-out door 10, pull-out door 11, pull-out door 12, and pull-out door 13 is formed between a front plate, a back plate, and a side plate between the two. It is a heat insulating door structure in which a heat insulating material is foam filled in an open space. About the handle | steering-wheel structure which concerns on this invention, although you may apply to any door, in the refrigerator-freezer 1 which is one of the storages 1 of this Example, as a location where the most suitable effect can be exhibited, The configuration when applied to the doors 8A and 8B will be described below.

  Since the doors 8A and 8B of the refrigerating chamber 3 are symmetrical and have the same configuration, the illustrated example of the embodiment shows only one of the doors 8A and 8B of the refrigerating chamber 3. The doors 8A and 8B of the refrigerator compartment 3 are foam-filled with a foamable heat insulating material 19 in a space 18 formed between the front plate 15 and the back plate 16 and the side plates 17A, 17B, 17C and 17D extending between the two. It is an insulated door. The doors 8A and 8B of the refrigerator compartment 3 have a handle 20 attached to the front plate 15 along front edge portions that are close to each other when closed. This grip handle 20 is a wooden handle in which the doors 8A and 8B are long in the vertical direction, and the grip portion 21 and attachment portions 22 provided at both ends thereof are integrally formed of wood. The wooden handle 20 may be left solid, but may be covered with a surface finish that is hard to be damaged when the grain is visible in order to prevent the outer surface from being damaged.

  The attachment portion 22 of the handle 20 is provided with a plurality of nuts 23 embedded in a state in which screw-in openings 23A are opened in the attachment surface 22A on the back side. The nut 23 is fixed by screwing the screw portion formed on the outer surface of the nut 23 into the lower hole 25 formed in the attachment portion 22, and in this fixed state, the screw-in port 23 </ b> A opens to the attachment surface 22 </ b> A. This nut 23 is called a demon nut.

  The doors 8A and 8B are formed by combining a front plate 15 and a back plate 16 with side plates 17A, 17B, 17C, and 17D, and a foaming heat insulating material 19 is foam-filled in a space 18 formed therebetween. However, the handle 20 to which the nut 23 is attached in this way is attached to the attachment portion 22 by the attachment screw 24 that is screwed into the nut 23 through the reinforcing plate 26 from the back side of the front plate 15 before foaming and filling of the heat insulating material 19. Is fixed to the front side of the front plate 15.

  For the doors 8A and 8B, in order to improve the appearance design, the front plate 15 is made of a metal front plate 15A occupying most of the front surface of the doors 8A and 8B, and the remaining front plate 15B is made of the door 8A, It is comprised by the handle | steering-wheel mounting plate 27 combined so that the edge part by the side of the handle | steering-wheel 20 of the doors 8A and 8B which 8B may adjoin may be comprised. The handle mounting plate 27 and the handle 20 have a length extending over the upper and lower side plates 17C and 17D of the doors 8A and 8B, and the handle mounting plate 27 corresponding to the handle 20 is recessed rearward from the front plate 15A. 28, the handle 20 is disposed at the recessed position 28, and a recessed portion 28A that is recessed with a gentle curve toward the rear is formed corresponding to the grip portion 21 of the handle 20, and an attachment portion of the handle 20 is formed. A mounting recess 28 </ b> B is formed at the vertical position so that 22 fits.

  Accordingly, the front plate 15B corresponding to the handle 20 of the front plate 15 has an accented door appearance, and the design effect is improved as compared with the flat form of the front plate 15 of the doors 8A and 8B. improves. Further, the handle attachment plate 27 has a different color tone from the metal front plate 15A, thereby further improving the design effect.

  The handle mounting plate 27 includes a front base plate 27A that forms a part 15B of the front plate 15 of the doors 8A and 8B, and a side plate 27B that forms a side plate 17A that is a part of the side plates of the doors 8A and 8B. Yes. The front base plate 27A and the side plate 27B have a configuration in which separate injection-molded synthetic resin members are joined and integrated, and the recess 28A and the recess 28B are formed in the front base plate 27A. The

  The metal front plate 15A is integrally formed by bending the side plates 17B of the doors 8A and 8B on the side opposite to the attachment edge of the handle 20 (on the hinge device 9 side). The doors 8A and 8B are assembled by preparing the handle attachment plate 27 in which the front base plate 27A and the side plate 27B are integrated, and inserting the end of the front plate 15A into the groove 29 of the front base plate 27A of the handle attachment plate 27. In this state, the end portion of the front plate 15A and the front base plate 27A are coupled to each other by the spring attachment 30 attached to the rear wall of the groove 29, and the handle attachment plate 27 and the metal front plate 15A are integrated. , A synthetic resin cap for forming the side plates 17C and 17D is joined to the upper and lower ends of the integrated body, and the back plate 16 is combined with the side plates 17A, 17B, 17C and 17D to form a space 18 therebetween. A substrate is formed.

  In this case, the handle 20 is disposed on the front surface of the front base plate 27A before the handle attachment plate 27 and the metal front plate 15A are integrated, and is appropriately inserted through the reinforcing plate 26 from the back side of the front base plate 27A. The attachment portion 22 is fixed to the recess 28 </ b> B on the front surface side of the front plate 15 by an attachment screw 24 that is screwed into the nut 23. However, since the handle 20 may be damaged during the assembly of the door base body, in order to prevent this, the handle 20 is attached to the side plates 17A, 17B, 17C, and 17D in the same manner as described above before the back plate 16 is combined with the side plates 17A, 17B, 17C, and 17D. The front base plate 27A can be attached with screws 24.

  In this state where the door base with the handle 20 attached is set in a foaming jig, the space 18 is filled with the foamable heat insulating material 19 to form the heat insulating doors 8A and 8B.

  The handle mounting plate 27 has a front base plate 27A and a side plate 27B that are separated from each other, so that the front base plate 27A corresponds to the handle 20 and can easily have an accented door appearance. The design effect is improved as compared with the flat form of the entire front plate 15 of 8B, and the design effect is further improved by changing the color of the front base plate 27A from that of the metal front plate 15A. Become. Further, by configuring the side slope 17A with a side plate 27B separate from the front base plate 27A, the color tone with the side plates 17A, 17B of the doors 8A, 8B is unified, and the color tone with the side plates 17A, 17B, 17C, 17D. It becomes easy to unify.

  The handle mounting plate 27 may be formed integrally with the front base plate 27A and the side plate 27B, rather than as a separate component. Further, since the handle attaching plate 27 only needs to constitute the front plate 15B to which the handle 20 is attached, only the front base plate 27A that does not include the side plate 27B is provided, and the side plate 17A is separately provided when the door base is assembled. 27A, side plates 17C and 17D, and the back plate 16 may be combined.

  7 and 8 show a form in which the synthetic resin grip handle 200 is attached to the front base plate 27A of the handle mounting plate 27 constituted by the front base plate 27A and the side plate 27B as described above. . The handle 200 is long in the vertical direction of the doors 8A and 8B, and includes a handle base portion 200A made of synthetic resin and a cap member 200B of a front cover made of synthetic resin. In addition, the same part is attached | subjected to the same part as the thing of FIGS.

  As described above, the doors 8A and 8B are assembled by preparing a handle attachment plate 27 in which the front base plate 27A and the side plate 27B are integrated, and the front plate 15A is inserted into the groove 29 of the front base plate 27A of the handle attachment plate 27. With the end portion inserted, the end portion of the front plate 15A and the front base plate 27A are coupled to each other by the spring-like attachment tool 30 attached to the rear wall of the groove 29, so that the handle attachment plate 27 and the metal front plate 15A are joined. And the synthetic resin caps that form the side plates 17C and 17D are coupled to the upper and lower ends of the integrated product, and the back plate 16 is combined with the side plates 17A, 17B, 17C, and 17D, and a space 18 is formed therebetween. The door base body formed with is formed. In a state where the door base is set in the foaming jig, the space 18 is filled with the foamable heat insulating material 19 to form the heat insulating doors 8A and 8B.

  In the handle 200, after the foam 18 is filled in the space 18, the hook portion 220A formed on a part of the attachment portion 220 formed on the upper and lower portions of the handle base portion 200A is hooked in the hole 221 formed in the recess 28B. Then, the upper and lower mounting portions 220 are set in the recess 28B and fixed to the front base plate 27A with screws 227 as necessary. In this state, the reinforcing bracket 222 is fixed to the handle base portion 200A from the front surface of the handle base portion 200A with a screw 223, and then passes through the reinforcing bracket 222 from the front surface of the handle base portion 200A. To fix.

  The handle base 200A fixed in this way is elastically engaged with the lock 226 formed on the handle base 200A by appropriately engaging the lock 225 formed on the back side of the cap member 200B, thereby allowing the cap member 200B to handle the handle 200B. It is combined with the front surface of the base 200A. Thus, the handle 200 is completed, and the grip portion 210 is formed between the upper and lower attachment portions 202.

  The storage of the present invention is not limited to the above embodiment, and can be applied to various forms without departing from the technical scope of the present invention, and the door to which the wooden handle is attached is not limited to the refrigerator compartment door, You may apply to the door of another room.

It is a front perspective view of the refrigerator-freezer according to the present invention. (Example 1) It is a disassembled perspective view of the door of the refrigerator-freezer which concerns on this invention. (Example 1) It is a vertical side view of the handle part of the door of the refrigerator-freezer according to the present invention. (Example 1) It is a cross-sectional top view corresponding to the handle | steering-wheel attachment part of the door of the refrigerator-freezer according to this invention. (Example 1) It is the crossing top view to which the handle | steering-wheel attachment part of the door of the refrigerator-freezer according to this invention was expanded. (Example 1) It is the vertical side view which expanded the handle | steering-wheel attachment part of the door of the refrigerator-freezer according to this invention. (Example 1) It is a vertical side view of the handle | steering-wheel part which attached the handle made from the synthetic resin which concerns on invention before this invention to the handle | steering-wheel attachment board. FIG. 8 is an exploded perspective view of the handle of FIG. 7.

Explanation of symbols

1 ... Frozen refrigerator (storage)
2 .... Refrigerator main body 3 .... Refrigeration room 8A, 8B ... Refrigeration room door 9 ... Hinge device 15, 15A, 15B ... Front plate 16 ... Back plate 17A, 17B, 17C, 17D ··· Side plate 18 ··· Space 19 ··· Foaming insulation 20 ··· Grip handle 21 ··· Grip portion 22 ··· Mounting portion 23 ··· Nut 24 ··· Mounting screw 26 ... Reinforcement plate 27 ... Handle mounting plate 27A ... Front base plate 27B ... Side plate 28A, 28B ... Recess

Claims (2)

A door which opens and closes the front opening of the storage body by foam filling and filling the space formed between the front opening storage body, the front plate, the back plate and the side plate between the two, and the front edge of the door A grip handle attached along the portion, the grip handle is a wooden handle in which a grip portion and attachment portions provided at both ends thereof are integrally formed of wood, and an edge of the door is formed of the door. A front side plate that is provided separately from the front plate and is combined with an end portion of the front plate of the door so as to form a part of the front plate of the door, and a side plate that constitutes a side plate on one side of the door The handle is provided with a handle mounting plate, and the mounting portion includes a nut embedded in a state in which a screw-in opening is opened on the mounting surface on the back side, and the foam is filled from the heat insulating material from the back side of the front base plate. Installation to be screwed onto the nut Reservoir, wherein the mounting portion is fixed to the front side of the front base plate by di. A door that opens and closes the front opening of the storage body by foam filling and filling the space formed between the storage body of the front opening, the metal front plate and the back plate, and the side plate between the two, and the front of the door A grip handle attached along an edge, wherein the handle is a wooden handle in which a grip portion and attachment portions provided at both ends thereof are integrally formed of wood, and the edge of the door is the door Made of a synthetic resin that is combined with an end of the front plate of the door so as to form a part of the front plate of the door. A front base plate and a synthetic resin side plate whose front end is joined to the front base plate and forms a side plate on one side of the door. Nut embedded in the state The provided, reservoirs, wherein the mounting portion by mounting screw screwed into the nut prior to foam filling from the rear side of said front base plate of the heat insulating material is fixed to the front side of the front base plate.

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